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Andrew Lapin

Andrew Lapin

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
NPR , The Dissolve
Total Reviews:
33

Listing Of All Reviews & Articles

Showing 1 - 33 of 33
Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/5 80% The Summit (2013) " Reenactments in documentaries are always a tricky business, but here, they feel necessary. The staged scenes communicate just how visceral mountaineering can be." — The Dissolve
Posted Oct 2, 2013
1.5/5 42% Zaytoun (2013) " Though Dorff isn't the only thing wrong with Zaytoun, he is still its biggest liability, and the rare case where one miscast role ruins a film's essential premise." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 19, 2013
3.5/5 67% Newlyweeds (2013) " It's difficult to deduce whether Newlyweeds is too loose, or merely designed to appear too loose...Yet the movie has a certain dark charm." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 18, 2013
4.5/5 98% Wadjda (2013) " An expertly crafted piece of filmmaking...Wadjda is an object of stark beauty, an oasis of free-spirited cinema emerging from the desert." — The Dissolve
Posted Sep 12, 2013
3/5 81% Una noche (One Night) (2013) " The Spike Lee-presented Una Noche is less a sociopolitical statement than a sweaty, sexed-up coming-of-age film." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 26, 2013
1/5 8% Savannah (2013) " Savannah's backstory may sound inscrutable to the world outside Southern Georgia social clubs; that's because it is." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 26, 2013
3/5 —— The Weekend () " With essentially nothing to lose, Avers and company hit a note of playful confidence." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 19, 2013
4/5 92% This Is Martin Bonner (2013) " Somewhere far beyond the hoary parables of most faith-based films and the brutal body-blows of prison flicks soars This Is Martin Bonner, an understated drama with small words and big ideas." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 13, 2013
1/5 79% Rising From Ashes (2013) " Rising From Ashes, a film produced by Project Rwanda and funded by its donors, is little more than an 82-minute fundraising pitch." — The Dissolve
Posted Aug 1, 2013
3/5 87% 100 Bloody Acres (2013) " The Morgan brothers' special blend of gross-out laughs is just sustainable enough." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
2/5 85% Terms And Conditions May Apply (2013) " Apart from its shallow analysis,Terms And Conditions is, if anything, not alarmist enough." — The Dissolve
Posted Jul 11, 2013
75% Collaborator (2012) " Writer-director-star Martin Donovan can't connect the dots; the film is a ponderous bore." — NPR
Posted Jul 5, 2012
41% The Last Ride (2012) " The film can't really function as a proper meditation on its subject - because he's not really its subject." — NPR
Posted Jun 21, 2012
68% Extraterrestrial (2012) " There is originality, certainly. But Vigalondo teased us with the moon and the stars, and delivered only the terrestrial." — NPR
Posted Jun 14, 2012
29% Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding (2012) " Peace, Love & Misunderstanding mostly comes across as chintzy and uninspired as its title." — NPR
Posted Jun 7, 2012
90% Historias que so existem quando lembradas (Found Memories) (2012) " The feeling of twilight permeates Found Memories, which doesn't feel so much like a tale of discovery as it does a eulogy." — NPR
Posted May 31, 2012
89% OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie (2012) " There are many moments where Clayman's experience speaks to something universal, but other details feel too private, too specific, for our eyes." — NPR
Posted May 24, 2012
5% Hick (2012) " Doesn't deserve to be remembered as much of anything." — NPR
Posted May 10, 2012
89% Death of a Superhero (2012) " Charming, raunchy and improbably uplifting." — NPR
Posted May 3, 2012
63% The Five-Year Engagement (2012) " [It] feels poignant and real in a way few raunch comedies are." — NPR
Posted Apr 28, 2012
25% Jesus Henry Christ (2012) " Henry can finish a college application test in two minutes, yet Jesus Henry Christ doesn't know what to do with 90." — NPR
Posted Apr 19, 2012
44% American Reunion (2012) " It's kind of sad, in a way." — NPR
Posted Apr 5, 2012
32% Intruders (2012) " Little happens in the first act, and most of what transpires in the second will be contradicted by the events of the third. Doesn't leave much of a net sum." — NPR
Posted Mar 29, 2012
44% Brake (2012) " There are plenty of gripping moments, as well as a few silly ones - bees get involved at one point, presumably to please Wicker Man fans. And the ride as a whole is at the very least exciting to take part in." — NPR
Posted Mar 22, 2012
44% Casa de mi padre (2012) " The film feels ultimately hollow, perhaps because mocking soap operas is the comic's equivalent of shooting fish tacos in a barrel." — NPR
Posted Mar 15, 2012
85% 21 Jump Street (2012) " It was inevitable that one of Hollywood's many recent reboots would eventually attain sentience. Hence the arrival of 21 Jump Street, a film that not only knows it's a remake, but knows how absurd it has to be to succeed as a remake." — NPR
Posted Mar 15, 2012
41% Silent House (2012) " Even if Silent House had turned out as grimy, gory and stupid as much of its terrorplex ilk, the film would still be an achievement simply owing to its construction." — NPR
Posted Mar 8, 2012
28% Project X (2012) " The movie is ugly in both its look and outlook. It aims for the bottom and hits the bulls-eye." — NPR
Posted Mar 1, 2012
51% Perfect Sense (2012) " It's difficult to impart feelings of profound sadness with an image of Ewan McGregor shoving a stick of butter in his mouth." — NPR
Posted Feb 2, 2012
32% Man on a Ledge (2012) " The film's descent into generic silliness feels more painful than it should for a late-January thriller." — NPR
Posted Jan 26, 2012
60% Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) " Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows doesn't rip enough yarn." — NPR
Posted Dec 15, 2011
22% The Sitter (2011) " Hill's trademark verbal hyperactivity never truly breaks through a script that's way more complicated than it needs to be." — NPR
Posted Dec 8, 2011
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